gzip-1.3.10

[Matthew Burgess]

From NEWS:

Major changes in Gzip 1.3.6 (2006-11-20)

• Fix some race conditions in setting file time stamps, permissions, and owner.
  
• Fix some race conditions in signal handling.
  
• When gzip exits due to a signal, it exits with the signal's status, not 1.
  
• gzip now restores file time stamps to the resolution supported by the time-setting primitives of the operating system, typically 1 microsecond. Formerly it restored them only to the nearest second.
  
• gzip -r no longer attempts to reset the last-access times of directories it reads, as this messes up when other processes are reading the directories.
  
• The options --version and --help now work on all gzip-installed executables, and now use a format similar to other GNU programs.
  
• The manual is now distributed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License without invariant sections or cover texts.
  
• Port to current versions of Autoconf, Automake, and Gnulib.

[Matthew Burgess]

A couple of quick comments on this one.

• The security patch is no longer needed, the vulnerabilities have been fixed in this upstream version

• Although the ChangeLog mentions that the syntax to tail has been changed to meet POSIX requirements, there's still a couple of occurrences of the old syntax remaining. I've sent a patch upstream for this, but in the mean time, the current sed will have to stay in.

• There is now a `make check' target

• I also note that we move gzip to /bin but we don't mention why. A quick look at the FHS suggests it's to comply with their requirements. May as well add a quick note here, just so as it's clear.

[Matthew Burgess]

Now gzip-1.3.7. The sed' command can be removed - gzexe.in has been rewritten to fix a number of problems, and it now uses PATH when finding which gzip' executable to invoke.

[Matthew Burgess]

Now 1.3.8. From NEWS:

• Fix some gzip problems:
  • A security fix from Debian 1.3.5-5 was inadvertently omitted.
  • The assembler is now invoked with --noexecstack if supported, so that gzip can better resist stack-smashing attacks.

[Matthew Burgess]

Now 1.3.10:

• gzip -c and zcat now work on special files, files with special mode bits, and files with multiple hard links.
  
• gzip -q now exits with status 2 (not 1) when SIGPIPE is received.
  
• zcmp and zdiff did not work in the usual case, due to a typo.
  
• zgrep has many bugs fixed with argument handling, special characters, and exit status.
  
• zless no longer mishandles $%=~ in file names.
  

[Matthew Burgess]

Fixed in r7898.

[Jeremy Huntwork]

Milestone 6.3 deleted